Opinion | Virginia needs to get it together
By Devi Ruia, For The Pitt News
February 10, 2019
For these men to keep their positions would not only be an insult to the people of Virginia, but a terrible stain on the entire Democratic Party. All of them men should either resign or be removed from office.
Top 5 / Bottom 5: Las Palmas
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 8, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Las Palmas has a cult following on campus — but is there anything they could do that would actually cause them to lose support? Read more here:
Poetry | Reflections
By Emily Pinigis, Staff Columnist
February 8, 2019
In her poem “Reflections,” Emily Pinigis looks at the world in a different way:
Opinion | Online petitions: not always a useful form of activism
By Julia Kreutzer, Staff Columnist
February 7, 2019
While a snow day seems a welcomed result of these petitions, making decisions based on a few thousand online signatures has much larger implications — students overestimate their influence and go above those with authority.
Editorial: Air quality concerns require stronger action
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 7, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The number of air quality alerts issued lately is cause for great concern. It feels as if we’re sliding backwards with our air quality, and this is something we absolutely can’t allow to happen.
Editorial: Trump defies bipartisanship for border fiction
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 6, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Despite the triumphs made in the last year, Trump’s address only further displayed eagerness to use falsehoods to stoke fear and xenophobic anger to accomplish his political ends.
Opinion | Corporate and Afraid: An office survival guide
By Allison Dantinne, Senior Staff Columnist
February 6, 2019
This Office Survival Guide will help you assimilate to office culture faster than you can type “please advise” at the end of an email to a coworker.
Opinion | Unpaid internships: When the costs outweigh the benefits
By Leah Mensch, Staff Columnist
February 6, 2019
Unpaid internships are a socioeconomic privilege. For students who depend on the summer months as time to gather funds to pay off loans or put food in the fridge, the unpaid internship is nothing short of a burden.
Opinion | We need to make the internet a safer place
By Mackenzie Oster, Staff Columnist
February 5, 2019
Social media sites have developed into places where people build themselves up by tearing other users down, whether by demeaningly voicing an opinion or starting unnecessary fights. The internet must become a safer, more civil space if we expect our discourse there to be healthy and productive.
Editorial: Big Pharma must be stopped
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 5, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
One company may be responsible for illegal activities that expanded and considerably worsened the opioid crisis.This kind of shameful opportunism must be stopped if we’re to have any chance at stopping a national health emergency of this magnitude.
Editorial: Northam’s racist photo is inexcusable
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 4, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Northam is far too defensive of something that has no defense, and should immediately resign from office as the vast majority of his fellow Democrats demand.
Opinion | The immorality of romanticizing a serial killer
By Ana Altchek, Staff Columnist
February 4, 2019
Rather than expose the actions of a psychopathic criminal, the movie is trending all over social media because of Bundy’s good looks and supposed charm.
Top 10: Reasons to cancel classes
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 1, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
From time to time, we may have to cancel classes — and here are 10 reasons why.
Opinion | Decent, good and chaotic: a glimpse into life on the Port Authority 71C
By Allison Dantinne, Staff Columnist
January 31, 2019
The public bus is an interesting gathering of Pittsburgh’s citizens, a demented family reunion featuring a wild cast of characters all wishing to achieve something and go somewhere.
Editorial: Pitt needs to handle the cold better
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 31, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pitt needs a more formalized plan for cancellations due to inclement weather for the safety of its students and staff.
Opinion | Venezuelan crisis shouldn’t be US opportunity
By Jason Henriquez, Staff Columnist
January 31, 2019
Even a cursory examination of regional history shows that in every case a regime far more authoritarian and oppressive than the preceding government took power through force and violence.
Opinion | US justified in recognizing Guaido as Venezuelan president
By Josh Beylinson, Staff Columnist
January 31, 2019
The majority of the Venezuelan opposition and our allied countries in Latin America have also stated they will not support foreign military intervention in Venezuela, so that option should be off the table. Sanctions against state-run oil companies within Venezuela are a much better plan.
Editorial: City leaders must be transparent in gun control battle
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 30, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If City leaders hope to try their hand at overturning decades of court precedence, City residents deserve to know more about their plan than waiting to “find out.”
Opinion | Bashing millennials is a risky move for Trump
By Julia Kreutzer, For The Pitt News
January 30, 2019
The last thing Trump should do is criticize a generation that could, and likely will, mobilize against him next November.
Opinion | As STD rates rise, more comprehensive sex ed is needed
By Delilah Bourque, Senior Staff Columnist
January 29, 2019
With STD cases reaching a new high of 110 million in 2017, federal law needs to stop funding ineffectual education practices in public schools for the sake of the population’s health.
Editorial: Duke professor’s email is xenophobic, discriminatory
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 28, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Neely’s email, which implied that students speaking in a language other than English would be penalized, was uncalled for and xenophobic in nature. This isn’t the kind of thinking that should be welcomed or allowed at universities.
Editorial: Hosting Louis C.K. reflects badly on Pittsburgh
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 28, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Louis C.K.’s presence in Pittsburgh — and the entire tour — was a mistake and an insult to women in comedy and in the audience.
Opinion | Gillette commercial deserves attention, thought
By Anne Marie Yurik, Staff Columnist
January 28, 2019
Gillette’s newest commercial poses a question that upset America’s men, even though it is one women face every day: Is this the best you can be?
Opinion | Online call-out culture cancels real activism
By Leah Mensch, For The Pitt News
January 25, 2019
Whether he is praised or criticized, the president is known for his tweeting. Donald Trump is not the only American who utilizes social media platforms to express political viewpoints, though.The second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Trump sparked 61.67 million interactions among Fac...
Editorial | Pitt’s hazing report fails student safety
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 25, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pitt’s failure to provide anything above what is required by law is a failed commitment to student safety.
Opinion | Ode to Rite Aid
By Maggie Koontz, Senior Staff Columnist
January 23, 2019
Going to pick up a couple of items should be pretty straightforward, and with Rite Aid, it totally is. Activities like dodging the scaffolding beams as I walk down the sidewalk and watching all those white plastic tarps flutter in the wind are just business as usual in Oakland.
Editorial: Post-Gazette cartoons don’t speak for Pittsburgh
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 23, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
A string of editorial cartoons published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this past week may have left you scratching your head — and you’re in good company. Three cartoons drawn by Post-Gazette cartoonist Steve Kelley in the span of one week show a blatant disrespect for women and put into ques...
Column | Pittsburgh gun bills fail civil rights and safety
By Jeremy Wang, Assistant Opinions Editor
January 22, 2019
Pittsburgh’s proposed gun control ordinances were cobbled together by cutting and pasting pieces from ineffective and outdated laws. The results are policies that experts say have serious civil rights implications — without making the City any safer.
Editorial | Gallagher needs to pay it forward
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 22, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Former Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg had a history of donating large portions of his retention bonuses to Pitt. It’s time Chancellor Patrick Gallagher followed suit.
Opinion | TikTok: time to use parental controls
By Josh Beylinson, Columnist
January 22, 2019
While limiting a child’s access to social media will certainly provoke protest and complaining, in the long run, it is worth it and protects children from being taken advantage of.
Editorial: To protect Mon Valley, U.S. Steel must change
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 18, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Clairton Coke Works plant has a long history of pollution violations. With the health of local residents at stake, U.S. Steel must finally commit to improving the coke plant’s track record.
Opinion | Accurate, peer-reviewed horoscopes
By Allison Dantinne, Staff Columnist
January 17, 2019
Do you use Apple Music? Do you enjoy it? Do you like to pop, and lock, and jam, and break? Reconsider this stance, Aquarius.
Opinion | Battle Royale: attack of the Fortnite clones
By Thomas Wick, Staff Columnist
January 17, 2019
While battle royale may be fun to watch, it needs a massive community to support it, lest it fall out of popularity. This spells a troubling future for the genre, if current gaming trends continue.
Editorial: Pitt is no place for hate
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 17, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
We’ve all heard slurs that target a wide range of ethnicities, religions, genders and sexual orientations. But there is no place for this kind of language at Pitt or in Pittsburgh.
Opinion | Women’s March fails its principles
By Ana Altchek, Columnist
January 16, 2019
By eliminating a whole group of women from inclusion in the movement, the Women’s March is unfortunately succumbing to an equally harmful form of discrimination and inequality. No woman can write the story of another and the Women’s March has failed its commitments.
Editorial | GOP hard on King, soft on Trump
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 16, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Republican leadership likely hopes their actions against King will be seen as a genuine stand against white supremacy, not something done when it is politically convenient. The GOP’s silence on Trump says otherwise.
Editorial: Trump administration threatens women’s health care
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 15, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Obama-era requirement that companies provide access to free birth control to employees seems to be temporarily safe from the Trump administration, but as always under this president, the fate of women’s health care still hangs in the balance.
Opinion | Schumer and Pelosi are hypocritical in fight for border wall
By Hayden Timmins, Staff Columnist
January 15, 2019
Schumer and Pelosi seem more comfortable with spending taxpayers’ dollars on useless projects rather than giving Trump 0.14 percent of the yearly budget to help prevent the illegal entry and re-entry of criminals
Opinion | Point-Counterpoint: Forgive Kevin Hart already
By Cammy Morsberger, Staff Columnist
January 14, 2019
The best apology is said not with words but with action — Hart’s has grown and changed since his tweets years ago. His conduct indicates his regret, and it’s time that we forgive him.
Opinion | Point-Counterpoint: Nobody needs to forgive Kevin Hart
By Jason Henriquez, Staff Columnist
January 13, 2019
Supporting violence against gay children, even halfheartedly, is unacceptable. No one should have to teach a grown man in his thirties that saying or doing that is morally wrong.
Editorial: Democratic newcomers need to learn from 2016 mistakes
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 13, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
If Democrats want to win back the White House, their presidential candidates need to learn from the last time around and not allow campaigning and rhetoric to get as ugly and intense as it did in 2016.
Editorial: Trump’s test of emergency powers
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 11, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The National Emergencies Act of 1976 was originally passed to provide a check on presidential power while codifying specific constraints under which presidents could declare states of emergency. Congress must enforce this intent.
Poetry | Veritas et Virtus
By Delilah Bourque, Senior Staff Columnist
January 11, 2019
Senior Staff Columnist Delilah Bourque drew upon various syllabi from her coursework at Pitt to write this poem.
Editorial: The real consequences of Trump’s fake crisis
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 10, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Trump is both a hypocrite and wrong to blame Democrats for a lack of resolution to the shutdown, and the longer he blames others for a problem created entirely by himself, the more people he puts at risk.
Column | Veganism is not one-size-fits-all
By Leah Mensch, Staff Columnist
January 10, 2019
No matter its health or environmental benefits, veganism is not a practical lifestyle for many Americans, and nobody has the right to shame anyone for their dietary choices.
Editorial: Trump’s border security the wrong answer to real problems
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 9, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
President Donald Trump’s first prime-time address was his opportunity to make a case for his border security plan. Instead, it highlighted just how little Trump understood the problems he hoped a border wall would fix.
Opinion | Missionary training endangers other cultures
By Kim Rooney, Contributing Editor
January 9, 2019
Missionaries must respect the histories of other peoples and see their languages as more than gibberish. Failure to do so would only reinforce dehumanizing attitudes toward other cultures.
Editorial: Trump needs to compromise on wall
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 8, 2019
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Trump needs to put aside his ego long enough to agree to a compromise, or else the consequences of a prolonged government shutdown will be serious for many Americans.
Opinion | SGB picks empty talk over data-driven solutions
By Jeremy Wang, Assistant Opinions Editor
January 8, 2019
The University of Pittsburgh Student Government Board released a letter calling for stricter gun control. But an apparent failure to properly research the subject led to a list of proposals that leading experts are reluctant to place any confidence in.
Opinion | Pa to Paris: Vignettes from winter break
By The Pitt News Staff
January 7, 2019
Pitt News staff writers share how they spent their winter breaks and reflect on their time at home and abroad.
Opinion | New Year’s Resolution: Talk Politics
By Julia Kreutzer, For The Pitt News
January 7, 2019
Filed under Columns
Just as our political identities have changed, we must radically transform the way such debates and conversations are handled. This key change in our approach to political discourse is the perfect resolution to ensure 2019 is better than years prior.
Opinion | 2019: New year, same me
By Allison Dantinne, Staff Columnist
January 7, 2019
Big goals don’t usually pan out. So instead of focusing on big changes that I’m not even sure will make me feel like a better, more interesting person, this year I made a list of fun and achievable goals.
Opinion | Self-care obscures altruism during finals week
By Anne Marie Yurik, Staff Columnist
December 10, 2018
Filed under Columns
Before you stress cry into your bread bowl at Panera then promptly throw on a face mask in the name of self-care, remember there are other ways to cope during finals season. One way to cope is through community care. Community care means students — after getting themselves to a place of relativ...
Opinion | If these walls could talk, they’d scream: a glimpse into life at Hillman during finals week
By Allison Dantinne, Staff Columnist
December 10, 2018
Filed under Columns
The students studying for finals in Hillman are fascinating creatures, plagued by insurmountable stress manifested as odd habits. They gather around power sources, lean back in their swivel chairs while staring up at the lines of fluorescent lights and occasionally fall asleep on the floor under the c...
Opinion | Students leave gift of stress management unopened
By Julia Kreutzer, For The Pitt News
December 10, 2018
Filed under Columns
The Cathedral commons and dorm rooms are filled with Christmas trees, Hanukkah menorahs and dazzling twinkle lights, but students must survive finals week before they can truly “Deck the Halls.” During the week of finals, thousands of students spend countless hours holed up in Hillman Library while cr...
Opinion | Poem: Brightening Winter
By Emily Pinigis, Staff Columnist
December 7, 2018
Oh, what a magnificent time of year! The snow twinkles in the colored lights’ glow It seems everyone is warm, and without fear As they sit ’round the fire to watch the snow
Editorial: Tumblr’s moderation efforts miss the mark
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 7, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Tumblr admits its moderation efforts are not perfect and that the use of automated tools to identify adult content “versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale.”
Opinion | Trump must push out Venezuela’s dictator
By Josh Beylinson, For The Pitt News
December 6, 2018
Only with more strategic sanctions and further diplomatic action against Venezuela’s dictator can the country become a democracy and give the right of self-determination to its citizens.
Editorial | Ruling protecting priest anonymity unfair to victims
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 6, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
On Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court voted 6-1 to keep those 11 priests anonymous. But the decision is only a victory for serial sexual abusers and self-interested church officials.
Opinion | Pitt sustainability initiatives insufficient
By Leah Mensch, For The Pitt News
December 5, 2018
It’s clear that students, who actually have the power to make a difference, are falling short of the University’s high sustainability standards.
Editorial | Pittsburgh ordinance stifles community voices
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 5, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Community voices in Pittsburgh lobbied for a seat at the table in city planning and development. The process to earn that seat is shutting them out.
Editorial | Denmark immigration policy inhumane
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 4, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Denmark seemingly took a page right out of President Donald Trump's playbook on Friday, except far more severe — the Danish government will house rejected asylum seekers on a 17-acre island.
Opinion | Disney-opoly and the streaming wars
By Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot, Staff Writer
December 4, 2018
While I absolutely love Disney and most of what it has produced, it’s dawned on me in recent years that the company feels less like a magical center of creativity and more like a capitalistic black hole — one that devours every intellectual property that makes money for it and spits out hollow, formulaic nostalgia bait.
Opinion | Recovering missionary’s body poses threat to Sentinelese people
By Delilah Bourque, Senior Staff Columnist
December 3, 2018
Retrieving Chau’s body poses a danger both to Indian officials and to the Sentinelese people, who remain some of the last uncontacted people on earth, which in anthropology means they live in isolation from the outside world.
Editorial: Ohio bills threaten reproductive freedom
December 3, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Ohio bills criminalize choice in a way that is pulling the pro-choice stance of the national conversation about abortion closer to a pro-not-getting-arrested-for-exercising-autonomy stance.
Editorial: Destruction of rape kits unjust to victims
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 30, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
A CNN investigation revealed that police agencies across the country have been throwing away rape kits, oftentimes before the statute of limitations is up. This is a terrifying reality for victims, who can no longer trust that the evidence they give will even be used.
Winter, the Oakland garbage pile of seasons
By Allison Dantinne, Staff Columnist
November 30, 2018
I’ve walked past a smashed-up pumpkin loitering on the sidewalk in front of my house several times a day in recent weeks. It reminds me of two things looming on the horizon, both of which I hate to think about — I am surrounded by other people’s garbage, and autumn is over.
Opinion | Hipster help wanted: Reviving old art forms
By Emily Pinigis, Staff Columnist
November 29, 2018
Millennials are quick to scoff at old art forms like the theater organ — but young ’uns shouldn’t write it off quickly. Many theaters put a modern spin on old art, making it fresh and entertaining.
Editorial | Gab back online: a public safety hazard
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 29, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Gab was taken down last month after it’s ties to the Tree of Life gunman were revealed to the world — but it’s back up as of this weekend, which should alarm anyone who cares about public safety.
Editorial | Trump calls for state TV network: a dictator move
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 28, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The president believes the United States should form a state TV network — but such an endeavor would be a dangerous propaganda purveyor.
Opinion | Master Plan will fail Pitt students
By Cammy Morsberger, For The Pitt News
November 28, 2018
Pitt's Master Plan promises stunning renovations to the university's campus, but these changes fails to make up for exorbitant costs and inconveniences associated with construction.
Pittsburgh dodged a bullet with Amazon HQ2
By Delilah Bourque, Senior Staff Columnist
November 27, 2018
The deals offered to Amazon in both New York and Virginia could spell disaster to some of the residents in Long Island City and Arlington — and in some cases it already has.
Editorial: Trump fundamentally misunderstands role of justice system
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 27, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court Friday to fast-track the case of the President Donald Trump’s military ban for transgender citizens, an obvious overstep by the executive branch — and it’s not the first time the Trump administration has crossed this line.
DeVos’ proposal hurts survivors of sexual assault
By Anne Marie Yurik, Senior Staff Columnist
November 26, 2018
Even though Title IX is usually meant to protect the victims of sexual assault, DeVos' new plan, which tries to protect those accused over the victims, is a step backward.
Editorial: Troops not necessary to welcome migrant caravan
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 26, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
An order from the White House gives these troops permission to use lethal force against migrants to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel. This is yet another example of the Trump administration’s inability to humanely and intelligently deal with immigration.
Ben Shapiro brings much-needed political diversity to Pitt
By Neena Hagen, Assistant Opinions Editor
November 20, 2018
Shapiro may be forceful in his arguments, but he’s a principled conservative who shouldn’t whip up the left into throngs of anger.
Editorial: How to handle relatives at Thanksgiving
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 20, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
While Thanksgiving dinner at your great-aunt’s house is not the ideal place to throw hands with your grandpa, there are ways of confronting loved ones without turning the conversation into a battleground whence your relationships may never recover.
Donate blood all year round
By Mackenzie Oster, For The Pitt News
November 19, 2018
When mass tragedies strike, the prevalence of violence in our world resurfaces and the first impulse is to find a way to help. This is often why the influx of blood donations heighten around times that such unfortunate incidents occur.
Editorial: Trump wrongly blames forest management for fires
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 19, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump has once again proven himself incapable of appropriately responding to tragedy, resorting to victim-blaming and threats rather than promising to help with disaster relief.
Op-ed: University must follow through with divestment
By Hannah Bailey
November 16, 2018
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinions
While the creation of a Socially Responsible Investing Committee and its holding of a public forum does show a step in the right direction, whether the University follows through in actually reassessing the ethics of its investments remains to be seen.
Trump’s inadequate response to the Tree of Life shooting
By Mackenzie Oster, For The Pitt News
November 16, 2018
Trump’s initial response to the Pittsburgh shooting was to suggest the addition of armed guards in places of worship and a stricter implementation of the death penalty. Both of Trump’s suggestions model the behavior that they seek to prevent — the addition of more violence and death to society.
Editorial: GQ’s “Woman” of the Year cover insensitive
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 16, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The GQ magazine's "Woman" of the Year cover featuring Serena Williams has drawn the ire of fans on social media since its release. The stylistic choices completely ignore the important context of Williams’ history in the public eye.
Middle ground necessary for housing options
By Mackenzie Oster, For The Pitt News
November 15, 2018
House and apartment hunting in Oakland leaves many students on the fence about where they’re going to reside the following school year — especially since the neighborhood has come to offer a narrow selection of decent student housing opportunities at this time of the year.
Editorial: Proposed YAF lawsuit against Pitt unnecessary, harmful
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 15, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pitt levied a $5,546 security fee against YAF for hosting Ben Shapiro — and YAF swiftly threatened to sue the university in response. But the lawsuit would be a completely unnecessary publicity stunt.
House Hunters: Oakland Edition
By Allison Dantinne, Staff Columnist
November 15, 2018
There comes a time in every Pitt student’s life when even grilled-cheese day at Market doesn’t make your on-campus living experience any less dismal. You’re ready to move on to bigger and better things. You’re an adult. You want to make grilled cheese yourself, whenever you want it.
Editorial: Peduto to release Amazon bid: too little, too late
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 14, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Peduto will release Pittsburgh’s Amazon headquarters bid on Thursday, but he should have done that a lot earlier. Pittsburgers deserve to know about major, local economic developments.
Trump’s transgender policies disregard science, human rights
By Sandy Fairclough, Staff Columnist
November 14, 2018
The transgender community won’t be silenced by the Trump administration's transphobic policies.
Eating to help the environment
By Emily Pinigis, Staff Columnist
November 13, 2018
A recent U.N. report on climate change shows we have only a couple of decades before we feel the serious effects of global warming. It’s more crucial now than ever to make environmentally conscious decisions — and those start on your plate.
Editorial: Heed Macron’s warning about nationalism
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 13, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
The centennial demonstrated that a century hasn’t made foreign relations any simpler — in fact, we may be sliding back into old habits. And French President Emmanuel Macron made a serious case for the collective good at a time when the forces of nationalism are dividing the world in the same way they did leading up to WWI.
Editorial: Remember mental health of shooting victims
By The Pitt News Editorial
November 12, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pittsburgh is still feeling the damage a mass shooting can have on a community. We’re tired of reading about it. We’re tired of writing about it. And we’re acutely aware, after having lived through it and after one person was a part of two of these events in the span of a year, that mass shootings have become a cultural problem that must be fixed.
The president who cried ‘fake news’
By Kelly Loftus, Staff Columnist
November 12, 2018
Trump’s tumultuous relationship with the media has quickly become a defining characteristic of his presidency. But this war against the media not only signifies a lack of respect for both the Constitution and American history, it represents a threat to one of democracy’s most basic fundamentals rights — freedom of the press.
Editorial: Attack on Acosta is an attack on all media
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 9, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
President Donald Trump’s administration has a history of attacking the press, but its most recent attack is alarmingly reminiscent of ways authoritarian countries like China treat the press.
Stigmatizing mental illness causes harm
By Emily Pinigis, Staff Columnist
November 9, 2018
Everyone has had days when it seems people are just hard to be around. But you should not make anyone — especially those with hidden mental illnesses — the victim of your grumpiness.
Poem: Ode to my Juul
By Shahum Ajmal, Contributing Editor
November 9, 2018
USB they call you, To which I am left speechless. Yet, I persist to puff you.
The GOP’s white nationalism problem
By Aaron Lindstrom, For The Pitt News
November 8, 2018
One of the issues the Republican party focused on in these midterm elections was immigration — and Republican rhetoric on this issue continued to reveal how white nationalism is seeping into the party.
Editorial: Sessions’ resignation could curb Russia investigation
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 8, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Wednesday's events showed a president who feels trapped by an FBI investigation that is slowly drawing to a close and a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
Populism sparks high voter turnout
By Delilah Bourque, Senior Staff Writer
November 7, 2018
Populist movements get people to the polls at home and abroad. This year’s historic midterm turnout is just one example of voters showing up to fight rhetoric they deem dangerous.
Editorial: Young people turn out: Pa. blue wave becomes tsunami
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 7, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Midterm elections are traditionally Republican dominated — but young people came out in full force this year, giving Democrats a badly needed win.